Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2W. Blackwood and sons, 1902 - Ballads, English |
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ancient arms Armstrongs auld baith ballad battle BATTLE OF PHILIPHAUGH betwixt Bewcastle Border Papers Bothwell Buccleuch Burly called Cameronian Captain Carlisle castle Charles clans Claverhouse command Covenant Covenanters David Lesly Dickie Earl Edinburgh Elliot England English fair Dodhead Fairies frae gallant Grahams Galliard gane gentleman Gordon gude hill Hobbie Noble horse James Jamie Telfer John Johnstone King Kinmont Willie lads LADS OF WAMPHRAY lady Laird's Jock land Lesly Liddesdale Lord Maxwell Lord of Buccleugh Lord Scroope Mangerton manrent Marches maun meiting mentioned Montrose Montrose's mony ne'er never night o'er Pentland Hills Presbyterians prisoner Queen raid Reidswire Robert ROOKHOPE Sakelde says Scotland Scots Scott Scottish side slain spak stanza sword syde ta'en Tamlane thair thee thou thro Tividale toun tradition Tynedale VIII Wamphray warden weel
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Page 397 - As I was walking all alane, I heard twa corbies making a mane; The tane unto the t'other say, "Where sail we gang and dine to-day?
Page 334 - Peeblesshire, a spring called the Cheese Well, because, anciently, those who passed that way were wont to throw into it a piece of cheese as an offering to the fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the feld elfen of the Saxons, the usual dress of the fairies is green...
Page 233 - Advocate MacKenyie, who, for his worldly wit and wisdom, had been to the rest as a god. And there was Claverhouse, as beautiful as when he lived, with his long dark, curled locks, streaming down over his laced buff-coat, and his left hand always on his right spule-blade, to hide the wound that the silver bullet had made.
Page 58 - He has ta'en the watchman by the throat, He flung him down upon the lead — "Had there not been peace between our lands, Upon the other side thou hadst gaed ! "Now sound out, trumpets!" quo' Buccleuch; "Let's waken Lord Scroope right merrilie !" Then loud the warden's trumpet blew — 0 who dare meddle wi me?
Page 57 - Where be ye gaun, ye broken men ?' Quo' fause Sakelde ; ' come tell to me !' Now Dickie of Dryhope led that band, And the never a word o' lear had he. ' Why trespass ye on the English side ? Row-footed outlaws, stand!' quo' he; The never a word had Dickie to say, Sae he thrust the lance through his fause bodie.
Page 395 - Where shall we our breakfast take?" "Downe in yonder greene field, There lies a knight slain under his shield. "His hounds they lie downe at his feete, So well they can their master keepe. "His haukes they flie so eagerly, There's no fowle dare him come nie.
Page 333 - It is sometimes accounted unlucky to pass such places, without performing some ceremony to avert the displeasure of the elves. There is, upon the top of Minchmuir, a mountain in Peeblesshire, a spring called the Cheese Well, because, anciently, those who passed that way were wont to throw into it a piece of cheese, as an offering to the Fairies, to whom it was consecrated. Like the...
Page 144 - But they hae run him thro' the thick o' the thie, and broke his knee-pan, And the mergh' o' his shin-bane has run down on his spur-leather whang : He's lame while he lives, and where'er he may gang. Fy, lads ! shout a' a' a' a' a', My gear's a
Page 344 - I was prevailed upon myself," says that author, " to go and see a child, who, they told me, was one of these changelings, and, indeed, must own, was not a little surprised, as well as shocked, at the sight. Nothing under heaven could have a more beautiful face ; but, though between five and six years old, and seemingly healthy, he was so far from being able to walk or stand, that he could not so much as move any one joint ; his limbs were vastly long for his age, but smaller than any infant's of...
Page 327 - Anno 1670. Not far from Cirencester was an apparition. Being demanded whether a good spirit or a bad, returned no answer, but disappeared with a curious perfume, and most melodious twang.